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Systems Thinking is a Lean Manufacturing concept in which something like a supply chain, company, or manufacturing process within a company, is broken up into all of its components and then looked at as a series of interrelated systems and subsystems. Systems use this process to see how well all of those interrelated systems and subsystems produce the desired outcome those systems were designed to produce.
Do those systems work? Are they broken? How much waste can be taken out of the systems? How much more value can they provide if they are analyzed, broken down, and optimized? How much more efficiently can they operate?
In this episode of The Voice of a Nation, Wallace Garneau talks with Lean expert and author, Michael McCarthy, about systems thinking, but Wallace and Michael don’t look at businesses or manufacturing systems. They look at the government, the economy, and the country as a series of systems and interrelated systems.
When we look at the country as a series of interrelated systems and subsystems, how well does it do? Does it work? Is it broken? How wasteful is our government? How much value does our economy provide, and is our government doing what it can to improve that value, or is it wasting the value the economy does create? If we break the country down, using systems thinking to see how efficiently (or inefficiently) those systems operate, what would that look like?
Join us on The Voice of a Nation to find out.
Note: A URL was incorrectly given in the interview. The URL for Mike’s business books should be https://workingremotely.us/.
Wallace Garneau is the guest host today on The Voice of a Nation.
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